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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … she preached. Miss Cather (1873-1947) echoed in many of her novels the same theme—the spirit and courage of pioneer … Cather Foundation? Enjoy browsing past issues HERE (this early Willa Cather Foundation Newsletter eventually became …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … for the Future . Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to explore discussion questions and … download the National Willa Cather Center app for virtual tours . Organizations or communities that would like to …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • … cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … trip. We offer a variety of guided historic site tours, lodging, and events year round at the National Willa Cather …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with. It is also true, though, that we read … remains a revelation.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley About My Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded My … Adolph Hitler’s bathtub at the close of World War II. When Mildred Bennett began work on the Willa Cather Pioneer …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?" —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive restoration in more than fifty years. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa …
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The Potter Family
… a camp fire. . . . With so many emigrants coming to a new country, it made the housing a very serious problem and as … settlement surrounded by dykes to hold back the waters of Lake Michigan. In 1860 he rode forty miles in a jolting … years. He was the oldest of the brothers who came to this country. It is possible there was one older than he who 'did …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway Set to Reopen in December of 2023 … National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to …
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